#religious games

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Diane Benscoter, former member of the Unification Church cult and founder of Antidote.ngo, joins Reliable Sources to explain the similarities between cult leaders and former President Donald Trump.

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Comments:

Shawn The Great:

It is a cult when your leaders says “Don’t believe what you are hearing or seeing” I [have] never been in a cult but that seems like a cult to me.

teeohpee:

The only thing I remember from high school, beside the bullying, was a 2 hour special assembly about how not to get trapped in a cult. I’m so happy I paid attention that day. I actually used the tactics I learned at the don’t-get-trapped-in-a-cult assembly a few years later when the Moonies tried to get me while I was sitting by myself in Washington Square Park. Every school in the nation should be holding Don’t Get Trapped In A Cult assemblies.

B Bodziak:

[Trump’s] first wife wrote in her book that came out around 2001 said Trump only had 2 hobbies: Golfing and repeatedly watching Hitler’s speeches for hours and hours. She wrote this long before he decided to run for office.  So, the similarities between the two wasn’t necessarily coincidental.

Comment: Sun Myung Moon also studied Hitler and other dictators. Moon repeatedly watched the Nazi propaganda film, “Triumph of the Will” and it showed in his mannerism at his September 1974 Madison Square Garden speech.

▲ Sun Myung Moon in 1974

AllyC890:

[Trump] also must have studied some about Mussolini because he copies his facial expressions–specifically jutting his jaw out and raising his face up, just as Mussolini did.

Anthony Lagunas:

Don’t forget Donnie himself has said “ If you tell a lie enough times people will believe it”.

Golgotha_Mythos69:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

~Hannah Arendt

TheBioExplorer:

I’ve been saying this ever since he kept doing the rallies even after winning his first term. Presidents have done speeches and stuff but these rallies were different. I watched some of his closer. From the choices of music that target his demographic to the carnival like atmosphere and repeated phrases to get repeated responses. It’s purely psychological manipulation. This is why even after being sworn in he immediately started scheduling more even though he should have been figuring out how to govern. He put off appointing people and other critical things…. but he kept up the rallies. Presidents don’t need to do rallies within a month of taking office and keep them up all through their term. They might go back on the campaign trail at some point in the 2nd half of their term but not like him.

Comment: Sun Myung Moon kept doing rallies, which the members had to support, even flying from country to country to fill the halls. Moon was so unpopular in Korea that his first rallies were held in the US. Only then did he return to Korea, claiming he was loved in the US. He did have photos of himself with Richard Nixon, and others, to wave around. The UC was always prepared for every photo-op and used the images for maximum leverage.

▲ Sun Myung Moon at his September 18, 1974, Madison Square Gardens rally. He used to practice in front of a mirror.

Joni Beehive:

I’ve lost dear old close friends of 30-40 years in the past 6 years over political beliefs. The current state of affairs in the United States is so heartbreaking and terrifying.

andan04:

An obvious trait of a cult is the pressure to conform to the leader and group. This is accomplished by suppressing independent thought with the threat of ostracization. Ask Liz Cheney if she knows anything about that.

M L.:

When lies have no consequences a democracy cannot exist.

David J.:

Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who taught at Harvard Medical School, wrote a paper titled Cult Formation in the early 1980s. He delineated primary characteristics, which are the most common features shared by destructive cults like Trumpism.

1. A charismatic leader, who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose power. That is a living leader, who has no meaningful accountability and becomes the single most defining element of the group and its source of power and authority.

2. A process of indoctrination or education is in use that can be seen as coercive persuasion or thought reform commonly called “brainwashing”.

The culmination of this process can be seen by members of the group often doing things that are not in their own best interest, but consistently in the best interest of its leader.

3. The exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling members.

Here are some warning signs of a potentially unsafe group or leader.

• Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.

• No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.

• No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget or expenses, such as an independently audited financial statement.

• Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions.

• Former followers are always wrong for leaving, negative or even evil.

• The group/leader is always right.

• The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is acceptable or credible.

“This man is a genius at every level! Why can’t we all be like him? He must be something special, and we are clearly not. Ergo, let’s listen to him since he knows best.” — Trump supporters

Mark Green:

Attempting to use empathetic discussion with those who have fallen into a cult is perhaps the only way to slowly help them extract themselves from their delusion. This is not an easy process and it is especially difficult when they also keep getting cult supporting messages every day from other cult members as well as media sources such as Fox, OAN, Newsmax, etc. There is a small part of them, however, that knows they have accepted lies as truth and it is important to try to reach that part of themselves so they can work on themselves when they’re alone.

QueenFae21:

As a former cult member myself, i agree the first place you gotta get to is empathy for the people in there. Understand that they aren’t idiots or evil they were simply misled into a really deep hole and now they can’t even see daylight anymore, yet they think they are being bathed in the sunlight of truth. It’s unproductive to argue with them since they won’t accept anything that doesn’t align with dear leader’s word.

Nancy Chace:

Good interview. More like this is needed in the national discussion. What are the “tools of communication” she mentioned that can help diffuse this? She is a good example of the young people that were recruited by the “Unification church” back in the 70s. Apparently this happened all over the country shortly after the Vietnam war. There was a lot of it on the west coast. Glad she was one of the ones who got out if it. Thanks for your report.

David J:

“I have a chapter in the book on malignant narcissism as a characteristic of destructive cult leaders. These are people who have a deep need for grandiosity, to be the center of attention, who need to control others, and who lack empathy and lie without hesitation. These are psychological traits perfectly attuned to manipulation and projection.

But the malignant part is about sociopathic tendencies. Almost every cult leader thinks he’s above the law, which is why he’s allowed to persecute and harass or harm anyone he wants. When someone really believes this, they can rationalize all kinds of destructive behavior.” — Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump

Narcissistic cult leaders like Trump thrive on chaos. They’ll create crisis situations. When they walk in the room, you never know if they’re going to be good and kind-hearted or be mean and call someone out or create some kind of dangerous situation.

A cult leader is also a master of manipulating information, so that his followers will only trust details that come from him. This is what Trump accomplishes every time he cries “fake news” or discredits a reporter as “terrible” or “nasty.” He knows that Americans have access to all sorts of information, so he has to make his followers distrust other sources.

A cult environment like “Q” and Trumpism discourages critical thinking, making it hard to voice doubts, when everyone around you is displaying dogmatic faith and obedience to their leader. A process of indoctrination is in use that can be seen as coercive persuasion, or thought reform, commonly called “brainwashing”. The resulting internal conflict, known as cognitive dissonance, keeps them trapped, as each compromise makes it more painful to admit that you’ve been deceived..

Steven Hassan, is an expert in cults and an ex-Moonie cult member (as in the Unification Church, founded by a Korean businessman, Sun Myung Moon), published “The Cult of Trump” last spring. When polled, Trump cultists come across as having abandoned their commitment to libertarianism, family values or simple logic in favor of Trump worship. They’re lost to paranoia and farcical talking points,  just the way Hassan was lost to Sun Myung Moon..

Hassan remembers, during his Moonie days, shouting, “I don’t care if Moon is like Adolf-H. I’ve chosen to follow him, and I’ll follow him to the end.“ Hassan finally broke free, and became an expert on cults and how to leave them. He has spent his career proving it’s possible.

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i know it will never happen but i so desperately desire an origins-type playable backstory thing in all games but especially veilguard. i feel like it added so much depth to origins and made you feel instantly connected to your character in a way that gets lost in games like inquisition where you fill in the blanks as you go except for the bare basics. like, i do enjoy the freedom to willy nilly decide where a character was before the events of the story from a creative perspective, but the playable origins were just so good! especially when you go back to where your warden is from and can engage differently with the arcs there

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realizing it may not have been entirely clear, underage means 12 or under since you're not meant to join tumblr until you're 13.

Didn't think "prev" needed an explanation, but two people have asked, so. Prev means the person you're seeing/reblogging this post from, hence, prev (previous). If the person who reblogged this on your dash is named @/abcdefg, that's prev. if you reblog the post, you become prev for the next person who follows you and sees it. etc, etc. prev is the last person in the chain, whom you see it from.

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Birthday present for my friend nozzomi_cosplay (on insta)🤍

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some leshycat food ^^

i cant wait to draw all their fighting n' stuff hehe

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I fucking- I can't find it right now, but whichever one of you motherfuckers said Andrew's 'lack of control' was actually just intentionally calculated releases of pressure, that he was always in control when he lashed out because he lashed out in very specific and measured degrees - every single 'too far' was always 'just enough', its just no one else saw the raging volcanic inferno brewing just beneath the floorboards cus they were too distracted by how ear piercing the sound of the tea kettle going off was-

You're so sexy and I love you, but I wanna respond to you in spirit cus I can't find your post babes

We love 'biblically accurate' and 'devil's sacrament' as religious phrases yea? Well, my favorite (aside from 'heated fellowship', a black christian euphemism for fucking nasty) happens to be to 'know' or more specifically to 'know biblically', another word/phrase for fucking someone nasty.

stay with me this is going somewhere i promise pack a bag if you must

The interpretation I was raised with was that sexual intimacy was so vulnerable and exposing of one's most inner authenticity (that which apparently only God had such access to) that sex could make someone Know and See you the way Christ did (yadda yadda, "only fuck other Christians cus they'll be saved and sanctified enough to honor that blessing", yadda yadda) ANYWAY

THE POINT IS

You ever have someone in your life who just,,, saw you? Like, they could take one look at you and just Intuit Through The Vibes that something was up? Like they could just feel your energy and knew what to do or say or whatever? The kind of person who could walk into a room where you're minding your own business, doing something mundane, and they take one cursory scan of your posture and immediately ask "What's wrong?" like,,, what??? why do you ask??? what do you mean 'you can tell', I'm not fucking doing anything???

The kind of being seen for who you are that just leaves you feeling kinda exposed and tender? The kind of thing that leaves you bereft and yearning if you've never experienced it before (or had but lost it) because it feels like everyone only likes different mirages of you?

Andrew and Neil are so Relationship Of All Time because they seemed to See and Know each other like that even before they started locking lips on rooftops.

When Neil said "I want to see you lose control", i'm imagining Andrew probably felt so naked and flayed because everyone assumed he was perpetually losing his grip. On his anger, on his sanity, on reality, on his control. But like,,, Op's Spirit Of Post Long Lost, you were so fucking right. Every bit of Andrew's behavior was carefully calculated and intentionally released packages of what was his True Inner Turbulence that he would never dare release out into the open because that's not a target he's willing to give anyone a chance at aiming for.

Out of control? Andrew hasn't been that since he was probably a tween.

But Neil had never been fooled. From cigarettes and airport pickups to cigarettes and rooftop altercations, not once had he fallen for the mirage.

Without ever having needed to touch him in that way, Neil Knew Andrew. Biblically.

And that's why Andrew simply had to engage him in heated fellowship.

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games radar and oni press recently posted an interview with the writers of the cotl comic that is being developed and THE LORE thats coming seems quite promising

so excited to see how the lore expands!! go check the Kickstarter out!!

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best girl peach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! her mariokart suit is one of my fav fits for her and unbelievably hyped to see a homage to it in the trailer.

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